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" The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands! "

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" I don't think Steve Jobs nauseated people when talking about how great Apple stuff was. The reason why he didn't nauseate people is because it was true. The start of all great marketing is to have a great product. "

" I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations. "

" A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad. "

" What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.' "

" The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all. "

" Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc. "

" What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life. "

" I think a lot of the logic of Google+ is much better in terms of notification of messages to you, in terms of how you post. One very obvious feature is that with Google+, after you post something, you can edit it forever. That is true of both posts and comments. I edit almost every post I make and almost every comment I make. "

" At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both. "

" I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist. "

" A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. "

" A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same. "

" Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make. "

" When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people. "

" If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value. "

" If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number. "

" It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate. "

" Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. "

" The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. "

" Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. "

" I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me. "

" What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy. "

" I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. "

" When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight. "

" Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. "

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" Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. "

" My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. "

" You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense. "

" There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach. "